Plato

Standard Name: Plato

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Publishing May Sinclair
She went on publishing there occasionally for sixteen years: stories, sonnets, a long narrative poem, translation, and further essays on such topics as Plato and Benjamin Jowett .
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
26n38
Reception Elizabeth Carter
Joseph Highmore 's painting of her with book and laurel wreath, and John Fayram 's painting of her as a young Minerva in stylish armour with a copy of Plato , each of them associated...
Textual Features Iris Murdoch
In this text, she sets out a Platonic conception of art derived from Plato 's Philebus, Phaedrus, and Symposium which explains his rejection of poets in his Republic.
Textual Features Rosamund Marriott Watson
Her introduction demonstrates a good knowledge of ancient Greek poetry and its publication history. In addition to selections by Plato and Theocritus , the book includes single poems by Sappho and Erinna .
Watson, Rosamund Marriott, editor. Selections from the Greek Anthology. W. Scott, 1901.
xi-xii
Textual Features Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
This epic poem, based on the work of Plato as well as on the Le Plongeons' decades of research, relates the events that ADLP believed to have occurred before Atlantis was destroyed. She thought that...
Textual Features Mary Shelley
This novel has an epigraph from John Ford 's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life.
Shelley, Mary. Lodore. Editor Vargo, Lisa, Broadview, 1997.
47
Epigraphs to individual chapters range widely, beginning with the medieval Catalan poet...
Textual Features Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
This poem is written in couplets (the interspersed hymns are not by MAS ). Central characters include a Polish nobleman and his two sons (a child and a young adult), the actual Anna Nitschmann (1715-60...
Textual Features Naomi Mitchison
Her topic here is the concept of woman as property. Since the time of Plato , she argues, western civilization, or patriarchy, has rested on this foundation.
Textual Production Iris Murdoch
Andrew Cruikshank spoke as Socrates and Greg Hicks as Plato . The pair to this piece was Above the Gods: A Dialogue about Religion; the two were published as Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues, 1986.
Textual Production Anne Bradstreet
His long, descriptive title begins: The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung up in America; or, Severall Poems, Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight, before going to enumerate the major poems...
Textual Production Muriel Spark
She resisted pressure from Robin Baird-Smith to change the title, which refers to Plato 's Socratic dialogue on the nature of love.
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009.
491, 495-6
Textual Production Georgiana Chatterton
GC published her translatedSelections from the Works of Plato; on this day William Holman Hunt thanked her for his complimentary copy.
“The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1796 (1862): 428
Textual Production Percy Bysshe Shelley
PBS made (and Mary Shelley transcribed) the first English translation of Plato 's Symposium to attempt even approximate honesty about its homosexual content.
Gonda, Caroline. “Lodore and Fanny Derhams Story”. Womens Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 329-44.
337
Textual Production Mary Shelley
When Mary first met Percy Shelley , he was about to embark on serious publication. Between 1813 and 1821, he published several major works, including Queen Mab, Epipsychidion, The Cenci, and his...
Textual Production Frances Cornford
Frances Cornford assisted with her husband 's translation of Plato 's Republic. He dedicated it to her, in gratitude for many hours patiently given to the amendment of this version by one whose sense...

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